Appeal No. 1997-0915
Application 08/369,853
As to the other limitations of the "data acquisition
pod," we find that the external sensors in Policastro and
Sasaki are: (1) "independently positionable" with respect to
the housing containing the rest of the portable apparatus
because the sensor lead is flexible to permit such
positioning; (2) "self contained" in that they are complete in
themselves; (3) enclosed in a "housing" of some kind; (4)
"coupled for communicating with a selected one of the
plurality of sensors" because they contain a sensor (note that
no particular kind of coupling or distance between the pod and
the sensor is specified); (5) "adapted for collecting further
patient data from a further selected sensor" because the
sensor is intended to collect patient data (e.g., Policastro
measures "signals pertaining to other cardiovascular system
data or intracranial processes" (col. 5, lines 52-53));
(6) "for conditioning the further patient data" as explained
in the preceding paragraph; (7) "for transmitting the
conditioned further patient data to said portable monitor for
processing therein during said patient monitoring" because
data is transmitted to the apparatus in Policastro and the
sensor unit 7 in Sasaki; and (8) "not co-located with the
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